Tag: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Volunteer lending a helping hand with shopping to a senior

Moves by state governments to improve access to food stamps have been very effective in increasing the number of retirees and people with disabilities who get the benefits, a new study finds. The states, given a wide berth to administer the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as they see fit, have responded in…

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Abstract Low take-up by elderly Americans in most means-tested federal programs is a persistent and puzzling phenomenon.  This paper seeks to measure the causal effect of the benefit levels on elderly enrollment in two public assistance programs – the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program – by using t…